A Day When I Lost !!!!!!!

I am sure everyone had faced such day in their life, those who love to travel or who stay out of home town because of their education or service or girls after their marriage or something else. A day when they feel lost because of some or the other reason, in the same way I too faced the day when I felt like I lost.

It was the day after first one or one & half month to me in city called Pune, the same city famous as the city of knowledge and often known as the Oxford of the east. In Marathi, it is known as vidyeche maherghar which means, the hometown of education. But I do came here for job opportunities to work as software engineer. So my daily schedule was like waking up in the morning at around 7:00 AM get ready in formals & take the bag which have my resume copies & educational documents and get out at 8:30 AM to visit the companies which I searched previous night to submit my resumes or attend the interview if any.

So as usual that day also I went out. I used to travel through PMPML buses those days and same like new people during initial day’s bus routes & names of places in Pune was confusing to me, then also after getting information about bus routes from my cousin brother who used to live in Pune two years earlier than me I left the home. After doing my whole day stuffs, I was in the bus return to my location where I used to stay those days. Suddenly in between the Peth areas in Pune bus stopped due to some defects in engine or I don’t know. But the area where it stopped was very much confusing to any one, we usually call peth area bhul bhlaya a labyrinth of roads. Till date whenever I go to Pune Peth's it confuses me.

So all passengers in bus got down & one of them was me. When I was there it was around 9:00 PM in the night. After putting my first step on ground outside the bus, I just hanged like the mobiles use to hang due to unexpected or multiple things running in life, in Marathi we use say dushkalat terava mahina which means already a dearth & in that 13^th month of year. That time I was already I was facing too much challenges related to job search, family issues & many more. Then this new incident made my mind unconscious at that moment. I was looking around over there everything was looking same to me shops, roads & all the things there. My mobile was already switched off that time of day because I was out of home form long 12 hours & except my father’s cell number I didn’t remember any others number. So I was circling myself looking here & there, that was the first time and last time in my life I felt like “I am lost” & got panic. 

Then to get calm I took 10 to 15 minutes rest there on road side & talked to myself why did you came to Pune, what last words you said to your mom while leaving house & now what the hell happened to you for being afraid of such simple normal incident, hello boss get up achieve your first goal & then after give the time for such silly things. So after that I inquired there with the people about the buses to reach my location. At 11:00 Pm in night I reached safely, but I got very big thing that day is don’t get panic at any moment in life god created that situation in my life so he is the one who will create the ways out of that situation. Also just imagine football ground without goalpost, its just useless right, who will play such football no one right. So in life have small small goals rather than just running here & there. Life is precious don't dare to waste a single second of it. 

Now in my view getting lost somewhere somehow is the best thing ever because of that we take out our original potential we carry with us. Getting lost is the way to explore more things in life, rather than running in rat race or what else you may call it. We got life once so explore it as much as you can rather than getting panic on any situation. It doesn’t mean go on illegal ways out there or go on the way which cost your life.

Enjoy!!!

Thanks & Regards,

Rahul Chandure   

!!! Year End Appraisal !!!

Appraisal is one of the most awaited things in every service person’s life. The way we were eager to know about the results in school and college after exam with high expectations, in the same way we all are eager to know about our appraisal ratings. We hear rumors about appraisal on floor like it will be out this week that week and etc.

Before managerial appraisal most of us have the self-appraisal thing. Usually in every portion of it like Project Delivery, Innovations, Organization Help & etc. we rate our self-highest everywhere. As we all think like before getting something from someone else why should we don’t consider we did best and actually this thinking is absolutely correct, it’s human natural reaction on every action he/she does. One more thing in addition to this is while filling that self-evaluation we just copy pastes the context from last year document or from colleague’s document. J J J

Now during the period of FEB & MARCH every year first we had rumors about it & suddenly on any day in between we get the mail. In that most of us don’t aware about it because they work at client location or on client machine so they don’t have internal mail access as well, then till evening some or the other way they also got know that appraisals are out, so they also rush to internal mail box for checking it.

After checking it everyone get shocked some with happiness some with anger & etc. Now from here the main drama starts like manager is in tension how to face those people in team who got lowest & middle ratings in team. Some employees are happy always with whatever they get some are like in full anger some are like why me always. Some managers are like taking all the credit of employee’s work, continuously telling him/her that they got higher because of that manager only. Ohhhh one thing I forgot to say here that in so many big organizations during the end of year lots of employees get swapped with other teams & there manager get changed at the peak point of year end appraisal, they say this is because of billing issue but till date at least I am not satisfied with this answer why only at this time they had billing issue why?????

Then we had our one to one discussion with our manager, here picture is like few who got highest rating those are not all interested in such discussion that doesn’t even matter at that time because in all way they are more than happy & already exceeded the manager’s expectations. But main thing is taking with other some of the managers feel fear to talk with lowest rating guys because they also know this is not right way to lead any team but what they can do, they are also under someone in hierarchy & they had quota for giving the ratings in there team. Seriously in this time managers ask to employees when you have time to talk on this, when I got such reply I said hello you are my manager & why are you asking such questions to me.

         

In the discussion most common replies we get are like,

1.                 You are isolated, you don’t talk to me much.----man listen we came here to work not to talk & telling about isolation boss we have very good relationship with more people on floor than you not even the colleagues we have good relationship with other staff as well like security, support team, cleaning team. We are not talking much with you it doesn’t mean we are isolated, it also mean for doing normal chit chat we choose others because either we respect you as manager or you are isolated with your senior or old friends.     

2.                 You didn’t stop till late. ----hello boss why should we stop till late as we get paid for 9 working hours we work only 9 hours right. As you also know for any kind of hard work if use this 9 hours productively it will get completed then why should we stop???

3.                 You don’t have visibility. ----hello sir/mam who is manager here you or me? You right then what is your work to manage the things & check that everyone is working correctly or not right. Or it is like we should tell you every time that we are doing this this or that like developing, testing, migrating, giving KT, going to weekend organization programs, calling to client & all. Or ohhhhh we should work till late?? If there are no such issues that need your help or something which we can manage why should we tell you or why should we stop till late. We will complete that & just leave. We are here to meet the time lines right yes we are doing that & if any risks are there we are also giving weekly status also then how come you say you  are not visible. On this I will just say one thing on this to you do your work properly definitely you will get everyone’s visibility.      

4.                 One of the silly reason you never talked with client.---Hahaha if the project we are working on don’t have any client interaction then why should we talk with them, do we need to call them for chit chat hahahaha.

5.                 Another silly reason when you sent the mail to me mentioning in mail like please find the attachment & that time you forgot to attachment.---- Ohhhh this is the reason for appraisal rating, thank you so much for telling me it next time onward we will never ever do such mistakes J J J

6.                 The person with whom your comparison happened did better than you. --- Sir/Mam first tell me what is comparison it means you did compared my work with other same designation person in our team right as per our industry standard right. Tell me how you could compare a person working totally on complete different project or different module in same project his/her challenges or tasks will be totally different from us right, what requirements they have are different than us then where is the comparison point to you. Sometimes there will be cases like person with different experience will be on the same designation & get compared for appraisal you tell me is it make any sense to compare a person with 4 year experience with 6 to 8 year experience or vice versa. Sometimes there are cases like person is from your community or you place you will give more. Then I will just say well at least you care for your people but you are heading it in wrong direction. Let me tell you what comparison means you did your education right there everywhere we used to have orals, exams & etc. but whoever is appearing for it get same chance like same subject to study in same time that is called fair comparison. We know you will say that was education and it is work but if it’s not fair then who needs to change it. Listen rules are for us, we are not for rules.       

7.                 Your previous manager didn’t push us for your rating. ----Just (dash dash) the system here or higher management, that person says he pushed but you haven’t accepted it & you says reverse. I don’t know who is right here. Is it my mistake that at the time of appraisal you get allocated to me as my manager??

8.                 Yes sometimes we get reply like you tried to access the place where you didn’t have the access. --- Answer me you allocated me to this team or project & you are continuously pressurizing me to come at this place & take the knowledge transmission of the project from the person who is leaving the organization due to some or the other reasons(you all know switching any organization means ---- ). Now it is your responsibility to get me access for that location as soon as possible right. Then also due to your pressure or humbleness we accept to take that knowledge transmission on your approval by doing all necessary stuff at the start of day on entry door. Then after for going out or in we need to get any others access & that person needs to come at door every time. Now suppose for going washroom and all every time we need to get access so this time rather than taking that person to the door we just took his/her access card & did washroom stuff & came back within 5 min & suddenly some higher authority sees this & asks for Identity Card and create very big issue on this matter then you says that I know everyone does this but we can’t do anything this time because the person who made this issue big is higher authority. We can just apologize for it, hello we are organization person only we too know nothing’s going to happen with us but because of you all or that higher person wants to show his/her power or doing his/her work very promptly you just want BAKRA & every time some or the other person becomes that. 

9.                Sometimes the funniest reason comes like during last whole year total 10 times you forgot your ID card while coming to office. --- Sir/Mam we are normal human beings who can forgot anything at any point of time & if this is the mistake for getting such rating then fine. We will improve on it J J J.

10.           One very common reason comes like you never take sessions on technology or else. --- Sir/Mam in our degree and education we did all these things here we came for work & you tell us we should focus on timely delivery or these stuffs. In the sessions you too know who like to come & those who come they are also like just physically setting there nobody is interested in that session.

11.          One reason related to work we do in our spare time like you sleep on your desk & you do social networking. --- Sir/Mam if in given time or before time we complete our task then what ever we do with our spare time that is our challenge you don’t worry about it. We get paid here because we gave our valuable time & efforts, it doesn’t mean we should talk, walk, eat, drink when you say. We are employees not slaves is that clear.

So guys these are the main basic reasons we get in that one to one discussion. After this most of the guys fight for changes in it. Please be clear it’s not any exam so that we do rechecking and get better marks, once it’s given then that’s all no one will change it, but in extreme conditions they will agree to give you better hikes (chances are like 1 in 10000) but they will not change ratings once given. Why because it’s not in there hand as well because some else is there above them & in this way a chain goes up in hierarchy till the top most person of organization. Even though manager wants to give highest ratings to all team members they can’t. All organizations we work are very good but people who run it are not, because of such limitations or other reasons.

So what normal employees do either they will switch from one organization to other or they will not work the way they used to work before appraisal. Then management shows us the Onsite Lollipops or Carrots of Internal Recognition's and at the next year end same thing happens again. In ancient day’s commanders of army used to switch from one king to other and now a days one organization to other.     

So rather than getting angry on anybody just keep smiling be happy, understand their situations as well, at their point they are most helpless people in the world. So just maintain the good relationship & move on.

Thanks & Regards,

Rahul Chandure.      

New Features of INFORMATICA 9 compared to INFORMATICA 8.6.

As I worked as Informatica developer so the changes in different versions of Informatica which I came across while development will explain those only, to be frank I never worked in Informatica Admiration so that I know them only theoretically.

Informatica 9 empowers line-of-business managers and business analysts to identify bad data and fix it faster. Architecture wise there are no differences between Informatica 8 and 9 but there are some new features added in power center 9.

Cache Update In Lookup Transformation.

We can update the lookup cache based on the results of an expression. When an expression is true, you can add to or update the lookup cache. Also we can update the dynamic lookup cache with the results of an expression.

Database Deadlock Resilience

In previous releases, when the Integration Service encountered a database deadlock during a lookup, the session failed. Effective in 9.0, the session will not fail. When a deadlock occurs, the Integration Service attempts to run the last statement in a lookup. Also we can configure the number of retry attempts and time period between attempts.

Multiple Rows Return Property In Lookup.

Lookups can now be configured as an Active transformation to return Multiple Rows. We can configure the Lookup transformation to return all rows that match a lookup condition. A Lookup transformation is an active transformation when it can return more than one row for any given input row.

Limit The Session Log.

We can limit the size of session log for real-time sessions. In that we can limit the size by time or by file size. We can also limit the number of log files for a session.

Auto-Commit.

We can enable auto-commit for each database connection. Each SQL statement in a query defines a transaction. A commit occurs when the SQL statement completes or the next statement is executed, whichever comes first.

Passive SQL Transformation.

We can configure the SQL transformation to run in passive mode instead of active mode. When the SQL transformation runs in passive mode, the SQL transformation returns one output row for each input row.

Connection Management.

Database connections are centralized in the domain. We can create and view database connections in Informatica Administrator, Informatica Developer, or Informatica Analyst. Create, view, edit, and grant permissions on database connections in Informatica Administrator.

Monitoring.

We can monitor profile jobs, scorecard jobs, preview jobs, mapping jobs, and SQL Data Services for each Data Integration Service. View the status of each monitored object on the Monitoring tab of Informatica Administrator.

Deployment.

We can deploy, enable, and configure deployment units in the Informatica Administrator. Deploy Deployment units to one or more Data Integration Services. Create deployment units in Informatica Developer.

Thanks & Regards,

Rahul Chandure

सर्कशीतला पहेलवान शिकवून गेला हसण्याचे महत्त्व !!!

यंदाच्या  वर्षी २ एप्रिल २०१६ ला आमच्या सोनू ताईचा डोहाळ जेवणाचा कार्यक्रम होता, त्या साठी मी आमच्या गावी गेलो होतो (गुऱ्हाळ, निलंगा , लातूर). त्या वेळी  कार्यक्रमाची सर्व तयारी झाल्यानंतर, आम्ही सर्व जण असच गप्पा गोष्टी करत बसलो होतो. तेवढ्यात एक वर्दी ऐकण्यास आली कि आज रातच्याला गावात बीड चे नाना पहेलवान सर्कस सादर करणार आहेत, तरी सर्व गावकर्यांनी रात्री आठच्या नंतर मारुतीच्या पारा समोर हजर राहून सर्कशीचा मानसोक्त आनंद घ्यावा अशी नम्र विनंती.

मी त्या वेळी त्याच्या कडे दुर्लक्ष केल आणि माझ्या कामां मध्ये गुंग झालो आणि रात्र कधी झाली काही समजलेच नाही. तसे माझे चुलते मला म्हणाले चल राहूल तुला गावची सर्कस दाखवतो. त्या वेळी माझ्या मनात विचार आला कि आता यांना काय सांगू मी खूप मोठ्या मोठ्या सर्कस बघून बसलोय त्याच्या समोर हि काही नाही, पण त्यांच्या  मान ठेवण्यासाठी मी म्हणालो चला काका. तस गावातल मारुतीच मंदिर आमच्या घरापासून जास्तीत जास्त ५० पाऊल दुर असेल. तिथे पोहोचल्यावर बघितले की गावची लहान मोठी सर्वच मंडळी तिथे जमली होती, त्या गर्दी मध्ये थोडी जागा बघून मी आणि काका एका भिंतीच्या आडोश्याला थांबलो. मी चोफेर नजर फिरवून बघितले आणि सगळ्यांच्या चेहऱ्यावरची आतुरता स्पष्ट दिसत होती. त्या गर्दीच्या मध्यभागी पहेलवानांनी त्याच्या खेळासाठी माती वगेरे टाकून जागा केली होती. तिथेच बाजूला त्याचा तंबू होता त्यात त्याने खेळाची सर्व अवजारे ठेवली होती. पहेलवाना सोबत एक आजोबा आणि एक लहान ८ ते १० वर्षाचा मुलगा होता. त्याला ते हायब्रीड पहेलवान म्हणत होते. त्यांच्या खेळला गावातला ढोलकी वाला साथ देत होता.

त्या वेळी पहेलवाना कडे बघून काही प्रश्न मला पडला की, गावाकडच्या लोकांन मध्ये येऊन अश्या प्रकारे फक्त लंगोट मध्ये अशे खेळ करून दाखवायला जिगर लागतो जिगर, आहो गावी जाताना मी देखील माझ्या कपड्यांचा सेट वेगळा ठेवला आहे, कारण जर काही फैशनेबल कपडे घालून गावी गेलो तर गावकरी वाकून वाकून बघतात त्या क्षणी अशे वाटते कि जसे काही आपण परग्रहीच आहोत आणि अश्या ठिकाणी तो खेळ करतो तो ही अंगावर एक कपडा घेऊन व हसत खेळत खरच त्या गड्याला मनाचा मुजरा.

पुढच्या दोन तासात पेह्लावानाने भरपूर खेळ करून दाखवले. जसा कि लांब उड्या, उंच उड्या, जळत्या रिंग मधून उडी, बऱ्याच १५ ते २० फुट उंच उड्या काही कमानी मधल्या तर काही कापडी चोकटी मधल्या. हायब्रीड पेहेलवानानी पण काही अप्रतिम खेळ दाखवले, तो ही मांडी ठोकून नाना पेह्लावानाच्या उरावर म्हणू म्हणून कर्तब करत होता आणि हास्य कलोळ करत होता. ढोलकी वाला आणि सगळी गावकरी खेळला खूप दाद देत होती आणि  स्वखुशीने पेहाल्वानाला बक्षीस म्हणून कोणी २५१ रुपये कोणी २०१ रुपये कोणी १०१ रुपये कोणी ५१ रुपये कोणी २१ रुपये देत होती. पहेलवान देखील खुश होऊन पैसे देणाऱ्याचे नाव घोषित करत होता.                 

काही क्षनात सर्कशीचे वेगळेच रूप मला अनुभवायला मिळाले. ते असे की ख़ुशी ने पैसे देणाऱ्या गोष्ट गोष्टीने काही वेगळेच वळण घेतले. लोक आता पहेलवानाच्या खेळावर खुश होऊन पैसे न देता आता दुसऱ्याला चुरस दयायची म्हणून त्यांनी एवढे दिले का तर मी एवढे देणार जास्त नाही जन्मला तर काय झाला मी पण देणार अस दिसत होता. जो तो आपल पण नाव घोषीत व्हाव यासाठी प्रयत्न करत होता. ते दृश्य पाहून जरा वाईट खर पण पुढच्याच क्षणी जाणवल की ही तर माणसाची सवयच आहे तो प्रत्येक ठिकाणी स्पर्धाच करायला बघतो.

इतके सगळे होत असताना हि तो पहेलवान सतत हसत आणि हसवत होता. त्याला कुठल्या गोष्टीच काही वाटत नव्हतं तो फक्त आणि फक्त खेळावर लक्ष्य देत होता. प्रत्येकाने केलेली स्तुती तो मोठ्या मनाने स्वीकारत होता, त्याला स्तुती कोणत्या भावनेने केली आहे याची काळजीच नव्हती जणू. तो फक्त धन्यवाद म्हणून पुढचे खेळ करत होता.      

काही वेळाने त्याने शेवटची हनुमान उडी मारली आणि त्याची किती कमाई झाली ते ही घोषित केले आणि पुन्हा हसऱ्या चेहऱ्यानेच संपूर्ण गावाचे आभार मानले आणि त्याच्या तंबू मध्ये निघून गेला. या वेळी पुन्हा मला प्रश्न पडला की हा माणूसच आहे ना, कारण लहान पणा पासून बघत आलोय की कोणीही आपली कमाई इतक्या सहज आणि हसऱ्या चेहऱ्याने सांगत नाही. आहो आता मी हि थोडा फार कमवायला लागलोय तर कोणी विचारला तर सांगतो की कमावतो पोटा पुरत जर ज्यास्तच आग्रह केला तर व्रष्याचा इतक्याच प्याकेज आहे अशी उत्तर देतो. इतका सगळा असून हा कोण एक साधा पेहलवान पण किती हसरा आणि समाधानी राहतो असाच वाटलं.

अश्या प्रकारे तो पेहलवान शिकवून गेला, आयुष्यात काहीही मिळवण्यासाठी जे प्रयत्न आपण करतोना ते ख़ुशी ने आणि हसत करा परीणामांची काळजी न करता. ते म्हणतात ना happiness + hard work = success तस.  

वाचल्या बद्दल आभारी आहे !!!
हसत जगा धन्यवाद !!!
राहुल चांदुरे   

Respect Women Around.

Here I am going to describe the story about one fearless girl I saw in my life. It was the time when I just came to Pune in 2011 in search of job & I used to stay at Dhankawdi with my cousin brother Deepak. Those days I didn’t have my own vehicle to travel around Pune city. So like most people I used to travel through PMT buses.

One fine day during evening time when I was in PMT bus from Dhankawdi to Pune Station, as usual bus was full of public. When we reached at Pune Station all are getting out of bus one by one, then suddenly I saw a girl who kicked a man from the same bus after getting down. In the first look itself I could figure out that the man was drunk and misbehaved with this girl. Intoxication makes a person astray & that man was totally inebriate, he ran back to the girl & at that moment I was standing beside to that girl, then with my full power I slapped that man & he fell down on the road. After that scene all public started beating him & I left the place.

As I used to read books on SHIVAJI MAHARAJ, I like one biggest thing of him that he respected every women like his own Mother & I too follow that, a girl alone is not an opportunity it’s a responsibility. As per my view we can proudly call Mother & Sister to any women in this world at any place at any time. It doesn’t take anything to respect any women, just a feeling like they are our real mother or sister. One suggestion to women’s also don’t be afraid of anything just feel free & start objecting such behavior rather than tolerating & keeping quite.

Happy Women’s Day.

Keep Enjoying & Smiling.

Thanks & Regards,

Rahul Chandure

  

Time when I need to become Parent for my Mother & Father.

Here I want to confess for one of the incident in my life, where I behaved foolish with my mom. Now I understood my mistake & I feel sorry for that. Actually from my childhood itself, I was a stubborn kid. Always had quarrels with my mom, I used to get easily angry on her & sometimes get out of control by hurting her mentally.

This scene happened when I was traveling with my mom from Nanded to Jalna. That was the first time when my mom was traveling through reservation boogie of train. Due to some offended things happened with me before leaving Nanded, I was already in bad mood & my mom was asking me so many questions there & that time I felt like those are silly ones. Also I feel awkward in front of other passengers, with the thought in my mind that people might think that what an old lady is she.., who doesn’t even know such things in train. Like in reservation boogie seats are only for one person, how to make that seat as lower, middle & upper berths. She was asking me where the washroom is and so many things, like a kid. Also the guys who were traveling with food in reservation boogie of train are in service uniform, and then she asked trains also have staff for food circulation. Due to the bombardment of her questions I got irritated & shouted on her and told her just keep quite.

My mom is very talkative person she started talking with other people in compartment after that. Same day my friend Milind Dighraskar was also traveling from Nanded to Parbhani with his mother, as he’s my one the best friend. I introduced him to my mom and he introduced his to me and my mom.  Then my mom started talking with them & then she started asking very typical questions to them. That was the embarrassing moment for me & I was trying to refuse my mom from talking. But you know she was my mom, the way I was stubborn she is also.

So I left the seat for few minutes & went near the door, there I went in my own thoughts. I took halt there for almost an hour, forgetting my mom totally. Now I understood how much incorrectly I behaved that day. I was irritated because of her questions left her alone for an hour at a place where she doesn’t know anything. By god’s sake nothing happen that day but I should be attentive towards my mom all the time. She is the one who raised me like anything, who made so many sacrifices in her life for me. I am the loveliest one to her in my all siblings.

I promise her that now on wards she will live like queen with all luxuries. I will ensure that my parents travel in reservation compartment along with me.  I will make them live their life for themselves and not for anyone else, then it doesn’t matter if I have to work for 24 hours a day; I am ready to do that as well.

Now one of my dreams is to take my parents to flight travel & very soon I will complete it. I busy in building an empire for them. They always used to say that only you are happy in your life that’s only thing we want. But I will make them live there life as well. I am creating wealth for them so that they can utilize their time for them only.

     Things I learned from this Incident.   

     1.     Parents are not born only for raising their children.

     2.     In this running life schedule don’t forget our parents.

     3.    Give something back to our creators, don’t postpone it.

     4.     Parents will never ask for anything to us but we should be caring towards them & give surprises to them.

Enjoy!!!

Regards!!!

Rahul Chandure

My Mom My Coach B

In our whole life we come across two types of coaches. The first one is Coach A, who always listens our reasons for not doing something & we rely on that coach. Second one is Coach B, who always focuses on activities & its results. We feel Coach B is the brutal person whom we have never met in our life but in actual that’s the only person who want to see us successful.

Here I am going to narrate my struggle before entering into the corporate sector. I seriously believe in phrase 

"कहते है !!!! पूरी शिद्दत से किसी चीज़ को चाहो, तो पूरी कायनात उसे तुमसे मिलाने में लग जाती है !!!! "

My mother always wanted to visit Nanded district, when I was doing engineering from MGM’s COE Nanded but due to some reason & time issues we couldn’t make it. Finally the day came in my life when I took my mom to the place from where I completed my engineering & that day was the day when my final year results were announced. As I was the University Topper from college, I thought of going to the stage & getting so many appreciations in front of my mom so that she would be proud of me.  But it didn’t happen that way instead reverse of it happened.

First day before leaving to Nanded, I got to know from my friends that we would get the results standing in the Queue , I thought it was fine & decided to take my mom along with me, having the thought of at least i will show her famous places over there like Sachkhand Gurudwara, Kaleshwar Temple, Kaleshwar Dam, etc.

In mid of August 2011 when results were out, we reached Nanded in the morning. My cousin lives in Nanded with his family at Police Colony near Shrinagar, we stayed at his place. After getting fresh we started to my college & got my result, college staff asked my photograph to stick it on the Notice Board as 2011 CSE topper. I gave them a photo & left the college with my friends. My friends were praising and congratulating me. I then showed the results to my mom with expectation of some gifts & appreciations from her, but after seen my mark sheet politely she said that though you pass with highest rank it is of no use being an engineer until & unless you get a good job. That moment I felt ashamed in front of my cousin, his wife and all my friends & all present there even though I was topper from college, I didn’t have job in my hand.   

       

That night we went to Sachkhand Gurudwara, I was totally angry on my mom and thinking all the way why she disappointed me, though I scored top in the college and still she isn’t happy with me. I was feeling irritated while I was having conversation with my mom and was not answering her questions instead I was shouting on her any small reasons. Second day we went to Kaleshwar Temple, there also I behaved with this all foolishness, but she was gentle all the way. While we were coming back from Jalna through train, that was the first time my mom travelled in reservation boogie in her whole life. So she was asking me questions like a kid & I was in my own state of annoyed feeling & yelled on her. But still she behaved well with me, during that whole journey I made one decision after reaching home at Jalna is that I will immediately leave to Pune for Job Search & will not talk to my mom as long as I won’t get job & will become an engineer in her definition. While leaving home I expressed my disheartens and emotions to my mom in anger, that I will not call you or will show you my face to you until I get a job of my profession. She agreed to it.

On 24^th June 2011 I already shifted my whole engineering stuff to my cousin brother’s room in Pune at Dhankawdi, Ambegaon Pathar. I came back to his room & told all things happened last few days back at home. He was doing his education at that time & last one month was remaining of it. Then he said search for jobs definitely you will get some. That time I have two three thousands with me which I took from my father & said him also, I will not ask for money here onwards. As my brother Deepak knows how to cook, he prepares his food himself during his study. I have very strong bonding with him like closest friend or more than real brother; I used to help him in cooking & learned few things in cooking.

First month in Pune went faster that I imagined & as time was passing I was getting frustrated & irritated with me. In those days we didn’t have our own vehicle in Pune we used to travel by PMT & Dhankawdi bus stop is almost 4km away from room. Whole day I was travelling through PMT buses in industrial area for any openings, every day I was meeting with my friends calling them & asking about any opening news and all.

I got to know about some management trainee opening at one of the company didn’t remember the name of the company and when I went there for an interview, i cleared all the rounds & they selected me. On the same day evening with big smile on my face I went back to my home and called few of my seniors to tell them the whole day selection process. They removed my fancy glasses & told me the reality of the company and even after hearing that I was not satisfied with their suggestion. The next day I went to that company like all new selected members present over there & few senior folks gave an induction and directly took us to the field. We almost 30 odd people left the company & at shivaji nagar we scattered in 4 person groups. I went with one senior at Pimpri Chichwad area there in one society, he thought me how to do door to door selling, how to talk with people. I acted as though I am learning new things & I did same at few doors. I was talking to myself that my college senior was correct about all this & I was waiting for the day ending.  The time that company guy said me you can leave now. I started running in my own thoughts & reached the PMT bus stop. As I was new to Pimpri Chinchwad area, i got confused which bus will take me back to Dhankawdi. There I asked few localities for bus to reach Dhankawdi, suddenly one guy asked me to board the bus that was coming & I got into that bus after few minutes of starting conductor said me you are in wrong bus, so in fear of heading to any other place I jumped from the running bus and I fell down on road got injured on my knees but in front of my inner injury it seemed nothing to me. I reached Dhankawdi with wounds at around 9:00 PM.

As the time passed I started getting tensed about job. Same time Deepak’s college completed & my pocket was dried up. Now we both are jobless & useless person sitting at home.

During those days my elder sister Aasha was also working in Pune, all three of us decided to live together at Aple Ghar Society, near chandan nagar by-pass. This shifting released little bit pressure of mine & Deepak’s.

Those days my own words which I spoke to my mom, started hammering me every single second. As we were living together our staying & food bill gets shared. We completely stopped outside food due to the shortage of money, few days we also scarified our one time food. One day I told Deepak & Aasha, I will look for a part time job somewhere & in day time I will search for an IT job. So with the help of Yuraj Jadhav, I got part time job in V Customer BPO. There I used to work from 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM every day & I would get paid 4000/-Rs salary a month.

My daily schedule those two months of 2011 was in the morning I woke up at 8:00 AM after getting fresh and some breakfast & seen the Paper for any opening Ads. Those days I was fan of Ascent supplement.  After noting down address of job consultancy, IT firm. I used to leave the flat at 9:30 AM, in full formals with resume printouts & academic records file. In those days I visited all consultancies in Kothrud, Swargate, Deccan, Satara Road, Hadapsar, Viman Nagar, Yerwada, Hinjewadi etc. I visited small scale IT companies as well to submit my resume.  In the evening where ever I was I need to reach at Wadgaon sheri for my part time job. After doing work in night I reach home at around 12:15 AM, then I eat the food which my sister cooked for us all & after that by connecting mobile internet on computer I surf online, check emails if there was any calls for interview. As seniors told me keep updating your resume every day so that it will be up on job sites like naukri.com, monster.com, shine.com, etc. After doing all this things I used to sleep at 1:30 AM every day.

Next day same routine, one fine day got the news 3DPLM have walk-in drive for fresher. I still remember that day I woke up in the morning at 6:00 AM & reached the Hinjewadi venue at 8:00 AM, there I saw already more than 2 to 3 thousands fresher’s already present there, till afternoon I was standing in the queue only in heavy sun light. At around 4:00 PM HR came & took our Aptitude Test, after collecting answer sheets he told us that they will get back to us soon after evaluating. Same thing happened at another company near Rakshak Chowk, that day the queue went almost 2Km long outside company campus.

We got to know through Amcat that Syntel Company is recruiting freshers & aptitude test will be held at Dhole Patil Engineering College. I attended that test but didn’t clear. That day I took my friends to the flat & it was Sunday, I told my sister prepare some snacks for my friends, I am coming home. She cooked POHE & BHAJE for my friends. We had our snacks & my friends left my flat.

One day I got to know about vacancy at one small scale company in Wagholi near mapple group campus, I had given interview there but didn’t get selected there as well. On that interview day I got call from unknown number, they invited for IBM interview and asking me to pay 2500 Rs at corporation bank. After thinking so much I tried to call back on that number but it did not connect. After few days I got call from same number & asked be ready with money payment receipt tomorrow we will have interview. I asked him how much package I will get after selection, he said 22000 per month. As I was going through those conditions & suddenly someone was giving me that offer of working in IT Company. I gave a thought about it after getting suggestion from Deepak. I decided to go for it, that day morning I deposited 2.5K on that account & went to Hinjewadi Phase 2 IBM location at Embassy Tech Zone. In those days I was not aware about any company location in Hinjewadi, I went till Phase 1 by PMT bus from there by asking local people & I walked almost 5KM and reached the IBM location with full of sweat, there at reception I told them that i came for an interview they asked me about POC, when I told the name they searched for the name & told me that no person with this name is in IBM. I got shock & requested them to search again, they replied me same answer again. I calmed down and without talking to anyone left the placed & walking on the Hinjewadi streets, when I reached the Hinjewadi Chowk, I saw the Ganesh Temple near the signal I went there and asked god why such things happen with me always. I sat there in the temple for almost an hour & telling myself not to worry for such things and things will change at times. It’s good to have such experience in life, god is teaching you how to deal with such situations in life.    

Those few months I didn’t talk to my mom but on 2011 Dussera, I was missing my mom badly & called home after talking with dad I said him give phone to mom & the time she took the phone asked the same question again Did you get job? I disconnected the call in the same moment & thanked mom within myself for recalling my words. That time I felt guilty of myself & decided not to forget my own words from now onwards. In the same year, I didn’t visit my hometown on Diwali too and also I did not make a single call to my house too. I still remember the day when I was having a discussion with one of my closest friend Sachin Shinde and was asking him though being an University Topper I am unable to get the right Job. I even told him in frustration that I am ready to work for 2 grants too but it ought to be an engineering Job. Also On one fine day after visiting Sai Baba Temple at Chandan Nagar with my brother, we were heading to our flat by walk. That day I cried in front of him telling what wrong did I do because of which I’m unable to get a job. That day he supported me like an elder brother, showed me my strengths & told me this is happening with everyone and not to worry about it. He also insisted me to just pursue with my hard work and one day i will definitely get good result.

On 17^th November I got a mail from Cognizant Technology Solutions that on 27^th they are conducting Aptitude test at PCCOE Pune. I then decided that this time somehow I need to get selected & with the same enthusiasm i started my preparation like I did in my final year engineering. I had to quit my part time job from that day itself & I studied almost 18 hours a day for that 10 days, Deepak questioned me why was I studying this much and I told him about the mail, he motivated me to go for it and I will get selected this time. For Aptitude test still remember I went PCCOE with Suresh Reve my engineering friend & there we saw almost 10 thousands candidates attended that test. I removed all the fear from mind and gave the test. 

On 30^th November evening me & my friend Suresh got the mail for next round of interview which was scheduled on 3^rd December, so I started preparing for that in those few days before the interview, I also went through all my engineering books.  I also had discussion with few of my seniors like Kiran Kadam who was working in Cognizant at that time & took the help from him on what to prepare for interview. Then finally on 3^rd December we both reached the Phase 1 cognizant venue. Suddenly I was called for Technical Interview at 12:30 PM. The interview started with few formal question answers & then follows by BE project explanation to the interviewer. He also asked me to tell him one thing which was unique in me and I quickly replied that I am honest, hardworking, prompt, and responsible he then said everyone who comes for the interview tells the same thing. He again asked me to tell one quality in me so that he can hire me. I was quite for few seconds & suddenly I told him that I am final year University Topper. He agreed to my answer and asked me to prepare for the Next Round of interview. I thanked god for giving me the presence of mind so that I answered logically. 

Then after an hour my name was announced for HR interview, after answering all the questions, she told me to sing a song and that time Why This Kolavari Di song was famous, I sang it for her. After that she asked me one last question, if I get selected whom will I inform this news first. I said my mom. She asked for any special reason, I told her that there is personal reason and I cannot share it with her & as she said that the previous question was the last question and so I was not bound to answer this one. She agreed and asked me to hurry up so that I can inform my mom. The HR’s name was Darshana, I thanked her & left the table. I called my mom & said I became an engineer; automatically few tears came from my eyes. My mom congratulated me & she said “Thank you”.  

Things I learned from this Incident.   

1.     Mothers loves for their child is unconditional & sometimes she pin points child to speed up on life journey.

2.     Family members always supports you in all conditions.

3.     Never give up & never feel the stress, things will happen definitely.

4.     Even if we didn’t have college campus placements will definitely get job somewhere & that increases our sustain in extremely tough conditions and also increases the patience within us.

5.     We will grow tougher within our self & that helps us in reaching our milestones towards our success.       

Thank you thank you thank you so much Jaffer Sheriff for your help in writing & guidance.

Enjoy!!!

Regards!!!

Rahul Chandure